All these recent paintings and constructions have been made in and around my studio in Central Portugal and represent my output over the past three years. The subject matter is the landscape of the Ceira Valley near Gois in Central Portugal and views across the river at Rotherhithe in South London.

Each work is an attempt to assimilate memories of living in both locations, in a duality of image. It’s a preoccupation I have had since infancy, and probably stems from anxieties felt during the Second World War era, that was a gloomy background to my adolescences, that had to be compensated by a good experience. This manifest itself into a constant reworking of an image from negative elements and trying to make them into a good internal object again. My philosophy in this respect has been reinforced by a close study of the work of Melanie Klein while at University at UCL, and more recently seeing Goya’s Black Paintings in the Prado, that strongly influenced the later work of Francis Bacon, and in the writings of Thomas Pynchon the American author, and his metaphysical illusions

Exhibitions include:

NGP Contemporary Gallery. Coimbra, Portugal. December 2019,’Slade Interpretations’ Joint exhibition with Ulrich Niemeyer

The Pavilion, Shad Thames, London May 2019 solo exhibition

Bermondsey Gallery, London 2018, solo exhibition

Gallery SETE, Coimbra ,Portugal 2018,’ Arte Bolso’ mixed exhibition

D Contemporary, Mayfair, London 2017, ‘Das Beiras’ solo exhibition

Galeria Quadra Soltas Rua Bombarda, Porto, Portugal 2016 small works

Galeria Rastro, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, 2016, selected works

Art Catto, Loule, Portugal, 2015 selected works

Casa do Artes, Gois, Portugal, 2014,’ Fervenca’ solo exhibition

Board member of Raizvanguarda International Arts Festival, Gois, Portugal 2016-2021

Mercearia do Artes, Coimbra, Portugal 2016 solo exhibition.

Merceira do Artes, Coimbra, Portugal 2013, solo exhibition

Galeria Quadra Soltas, Rua Bombarda, Porto, Portugal 2010 solo exhibition

Goisartes, Central Portugal and Oroso ,Spain 2013, selected works

Galeria Almedina, Coimbra, Portugal 2007, solo exhibition

Between 1989-2001 David Clapham produced and directed Documentary TV productions for BBC, Granada TV, Channel 4, Swedish TV, RAI TV Italy, and worked in Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Canary Islands, and Gibraltar and undertook corporate productions in Italy, USA, Balearic Islands, Republic of Ireland, and Gran Canara.

Support actor in Chris Shepherd’s film ‘Bad night for the Blues’ winner of Canal + Prize, and included in the Clemont Ferrand Short Film Festival 2010

Work in other mixed Exhibitions include:

Harrogate Open, Mercer Art Gallery 2011

Bridewell Studio Group exhibition 1979

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool., Fine Art Department group exhibition 1971,1976

Liverpool University Gallery, Fine Art Department group exhibition 1976

Third Eye Gallery, Glasgow, ‘Communications Exhibition ‘1975

Liverpool Academy Gallery, mixed exhibitions 1969-1974

Bridewell Studios Liverpool co Founder and Director of Studio spaces providing Artist in residence to

Anish Kapoor, Ian McKeever, Adrian Wiszneiwski and rehearsal space for The Spitfire Boys

Kunsterne Hus, Oslo, mixed exhibition 1974

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Installation’ Blue Red’ 1973

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Artists group exhibition 1968,1969

Organised Yoko Ono ‘Music of the Mind’ Event, Bluecoat Arts Centre, and Liverpool College of Art 1967

Wolverhampton Art Gallery, mixed exhibition 1967

Plymouth City Art Gallery, mixed exhibition. 1964

Bradford Spring Exhibition, 1965

Farnham Centre, England ‘British Drawing and Painting Survey’ 1967

Purchased work is included in collections in USA, Angola, Germany, Portugal, and the UK.